TOPICS > Nation > memorial day. Nearly 500,000 military personnel died during the U.S. Civil War. Thatâs almost half of all Americans who have ever died during wartime, and more than a hundred times more than died during the American Revolution, according to the latest estimates from the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Coca-Cola (KO) owns Dasani and PepsiCo (PEP) owns the Aquafina line of bottled water. But they are running into a problem -- selling bottled water isn't very profitable, and there is a deeply competitive market responding quickly to shifting consumer tastes.
Get in Line Now: Gibbs to Sell 20 Aquada Amphibians. Gibbs Amphibians is selling about 20 of its Aquada amphibious sports cars. Twelve years ago, Gibbs Amphibians built more than 30 Aquada amphibious sports cars and promptly hid them away in a storage unit. Now, the maker of fast amphibians is selling about 20 of the cars under a provision that allows them to be sold as collector vehicles.